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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (24403)	7/13/2000 2:35:01 PM
From: Father Terrence	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

This was only because in his heart of hearts, Jefferson believed the Federalists were wrong. He chose as his Treasury Secretary one Albert Gallatin. Gallatin, the man who had turned the tide of the Whiskey Rebellion against the Federalists with a rousing oratory, was actually a man who had little use for the Federalists himself. Later in life he admitted to close friends that he wished the Rebellion had succeeded and the Federalists brought down to Earth, but at the time, in the heat of the rising rebellion, he did not want to see the American Revolution become a civil war between the Federalists and tens of thousands of angry men who felt the American Revolution and the Declaration of Independence was being betrayed by Hamilton' minions in the capitol. When Thomas Jefferson was elected President in 1800, he believed that Albert Gallatin was the only member of his party capable of serving as his Secretary of the Treasury. Gallatin's "...persistent assaults on the financial policy of the Federalists..." led Jefferson to this conclusion.